Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

Certainly. We can do that. It might be helpful to members to note that each year, the Local Government Audit Service produces what is called an activity report in which it pulls together the product of the audits of the 31 local authorities. It tries to give that overall national picture encompassing both the revenue flows that go to local government from central government, but also the locally generated stuff. It presents that overall picture. As the Chairman said, the Comptroller and Auditor General's chapter is designed to try to show the flows of funding from the centre to the local, but the annual activity report of the Local Government Audit Service presents the overall picture. I know from talking to the director that the report for the 2016 accounts is almost completed. It will probably be available in a couple of weeks. Once it is, I can certainly send-----

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